Faster Forward: June 15, 2008 - June 21, 2008

Last week, we covered Verizon's agreement, with other Internet providers, to stop providing access to Usenet newsgroups carrying child pornography. This week, details about how Verizon will do that emerged. The broadband provider, one of the two biggest services in the Washington area, will not just drop the relatively small...

It wasn't until I'd finished today's review of Mozilla Firefox 3 that I realized one of my favorite features could help me not just personally, but professionally. That would be its smart auto-complete function, which remembers not just pages' addresses but also their titles. As the author of a blog...

MySpace is sporting a new look today, as my colleague Mike Musgrove notes in his story. It's drawing some early, if limited praise; TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld writes that the redesign "shows that MySpace can clean up its act without giving up the ability for every member to customize their MySpace...

As I was working on last week's review, I had to test those two HP laptops on an old wireless network at the Post's offices "secured" with a 26-character WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key. Being 26 characters long, and being stored in hexadecimal notation (the numbers 0 through 9 and...

With today's news that Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin will vote to approve the merger of the XM and Sirius satellite-radio companies, it looks like we're officially near the end of competition in this corner of the radio realm. I thought this combination was a bad idea when it...